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💻TikTok Ban
🚗Your Car Is Spying On You
🎢Stocks Soar, Bitcoin Record, Inflation Back
🏛️Special Counsel Grilled On Biden Age Quip
🏆Trump Embarrassed At Oscars
🗳️RFKjr Considers Rodgers & Ventura For VP
🚨DayCare Costs As High As College Tuition
💻Ban TikTok
The House expected to vote TODAY to ban TikTok.
Approval is widely expected. The legislation faces a tougher path in the Senate. President Biden is backing the effort, Donald Trump opposes it.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity on NewsNation:
➡️Exiger’s JC Herz tells Scripps News “Keep politics out of it, TikTok is spying on us”:
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🚗Your Car Is Spying on You
Car manufacturers admit they are selling your driving habits and more to insurance companies and others. Many of the automakers also saying they would share your information with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity tells Scripps News why you should be concerned:
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💸Boom
Stock SOARING despite hot inflation.
It looks like the Fed is going to wait at least until the summer before starting to lower interest rates.
The just released consumer price index increased 0.4% for the month and 3.2% from a year ago, the monthly gain was in line with expectations, but the annual rate was slightly ahead of the 3.1% forecast
President Biden said on Friday he believes the Fed will lower interest rates soon. ," Biden said: "I can't guarantee it but I bet you those rates come down."
Dow up over 200 points
Nasdaq rises 1.5%
S&P 500 gains 1.1%
Bitcoin prices rallied to hit a fresh record high above $72,000
Gold hits an all-time high
🤖Much of the rally has been fueled by the AI Boom which dominated the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup client, was there:
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🏠Home Sales Tick Higher Despite Mortgages
New home sales ticking-up, despite high mortgage rates and expensive housing prices. President Biden has proposed a tax credit providing $10,000 to first-time buyers.
➡️SitusAMC’s Tim Rood a GisermanGroup.com client tells Fox Business’ Neil Cavuto things had been improving until the Fed ruined the party.
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🏛️Special Counsel Grilled On Biden Age Quip
Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Biden’s possession of classified documents after he left the vice presidency, testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
Republicans grilled Hur about his conclusion that the evidence was insufficient to charge Biden with a crime. Democrats, for their part, attacked him for disparaging remarks in his report about Biden’s mental acuity — including calling him a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” who had “diminished faculties in advancing age.”
RFKjr Considering Aaron Rodgers & Jesse Ventura For VP
Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota governor and wrestler Jesse Ventura are some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s top pucks for a running mate, according to the New York Times, which noted the independent candidate and Rodgers have been speaking for the past month.
Rodgers and Ventura have welcomed the idea of being Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, the Times reported, citing two anonymous sources with knowledge of the talks, adding it’s not clear if either have been formally offered the position.
Kennedy Jr. is still considering a shortlist of other running mates, the Times reported, citing people familiar with the discussions, but talks have not progressed as far as they have with Rodgers and Ventura.
🏛️Defense Secretary Warns Of Russia-NATO War
NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia if Vladimir Putin's forces are not stopped in Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels just returned from Ukraine. He shares his unique perspective with NewsNation:
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🚢New US Attack On Houthis After They Sank Cargo Ship
The U.S. and the UK conducted a series of strikes at Houthi targets inside Yemen Saturday, part of a continuing effort to fight back against the Iran-backed group that has continued to attack commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea.
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup client tells NewsNation the attacks on shipping have meant increasing costs for everything from oil to clothing to food:
➡️Exiger CEO Daniels dissected it all on Bloomberg:
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📱FCC Investigates ATT Outage
FCC opening a formal investigation after AT&T’s CEO apologized for the widespread cellular outage that knocked out service for thousands.
➡️But the bigger problem says Exiger’s Bob Kolasky on NewsNation—lack of cell phone service is a national security risk that needs to be fixed:
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🇺🇦Ukraine: A US CEO’s Visit As Defense Sec. Warns Of Russia-NATO War
Red Sea attacks, the Ukraine invasion, Covid — all causing major Supply Chain problems.
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells Bloomberg it cries out for a long term solution.
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🚨DayCare Costs As High As College Tuition
The child-care system is broken. DayCare costs as much as college.
The average cost for a nanny is around $39,270 per year, and is even higher in cities like New York, Chicago, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco, where the expense can top an eye popping $56,000, according to Care.com data,
➡️Laura Tulchin, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Early Learning and a Giserman Group Client tells Scripps News, “The increasing cost of childcare could swing key millennial voters in the Presidential election:”
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🏆And The Oscars Goes To…
ABC’s telecast of the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday drew 19.5 million viewers, hitting a four-year viewership high, according to Nielsen.
After a brief delay caused by protests calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, "Oppenheimer" took home a leading seven Oscars, including ones for best picture, director Christopher Nolan and lead actor Cillian Murphy.
"Poor Things" had multiple winners, including lead actress Emma Stone. Screenplay awards went to "American Fiction" and "Anatomy of a Fall," and in one of the night's most emotional moments, the Oscar for supporting actress went to Da'Vine Joy Randolph for "The Holdovers." The documentary short winner was "The Last Repair Shop," which the Los Angeles Times helped to distribute.
Jimmy Kimmel took a moment during the Oscars telecast, to read aloud Donald Trump‘s latest social media post that bashed Kimmel as this year’s Oscars host.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be.
Kimmel fired back at Trump onstage by saying, “Blah, blah, blah … Okay, now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on TruthSocial. Anyone? No? Well, thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still (up) — isn’t it past your jail time?”
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🧪Biden Pushes Abortion Rights As Court Rules Frozen Embryos Are Children
The Biden administration is calling for Congress to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.
It comes as The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization treatments as it evaluates the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. The ruling has sent shock waves through the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt over fertility care for would-be parents in the state and raising complex legal questions with implications extending far beyond Alabama.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said the ruling would cause “exactly the type of chaos that we expected when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and paved the way for politicians to dictate some of the most personal decisions families can make.”
🍀Fed Scientists Recommend Easing Marijuana Rules
Government scientists have concluded Marijuana is neither as risky nor as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances and has potential medical benefits, and therefore should be removed from the nation’s most restrictive category of drugs.
The recommendations are contained in a 250-page scientific review provided to Matthew Zorn, a Texas lawyer who sued Health and Human Services officials for its release and published it online on Friday night.
The records shed light for the first time on the thinking of federal health officials who are pondering a momentous change. The agencies involved have not publicly commented on their debates over what amounts to a reconsideration of marijuana at the federal level.
🤖Open AI’s Plan To Prevent Robot Uprising
OpenAI is putting together a new team of experts solely dedicated to preventing a potential robot uprising. The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT announced on Monday its plans for mitigating the dangers that may emerge from its technology—including cybersecurity risks and the potential that their bots may be used to create nuclear or biological weapons.
The company outlined the goals for the new “Preparedness Framework” in a 27-page document, saying that it would be used specifically to conduct regular tests and monitor their advanced models for any dangers it may eventually pose. The team would be dedicated to preventing such threats from emerging, while also ensuring that their products are deployed responsibly.
➡️Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation the AI Genie is already out of the bottle - and can’t be put back:
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🎓Teachers Post Pics to ‘OnlyFans’ to Subsidize Low Pay
Teachers don’t make enough money!
At a small Missouri high school, two English teachers shared a secret: Both were posting adult content on OnlyFans, the subscription-based website known for sexually explicit content to supplement income.
But a new approach to Early Child Education hopes to help teachers avoid the stigma. GisermanGroup client Imagine Early Learning Centers is the nation’s only employee-owned childcare company.
➡️Laura Tulchin, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Early Learning tells Bloomberg and CBS, “Employee-ownership means teachers' voices are not only heard in the classroom, but in the boardroom as well:
➡️According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, teachers earned 74 cents, on average, for every dollar that other professionals make.
📺Sports Streaming Venture Challenged
FuboTV is suing Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery over their recently announced sports streaming joint venture, citing what the company calls “extreme suppression of competition in the U.S. sports-focused streaming market”.
The Department of Justice is also reportedly investigating over concerns the venture could harm consumers, sports leagues and rivals..
Earlier this month, the three media giants said they will launch a joint venture to start a sports streaming service this autumn to capture younger viewers.
Top NFL executives are also reportedly furious about only finding out at the last minute about the new sports streaming joint venture.
The app will carry content from the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, major college sports, UFC, the PGA Tour, Grand Slam tennis, the FIFA World Cup and cycling.
💉Wegovy Reduces Heart Problems
The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in a large, international study that experts say could change the way doctors treat certain heart patients.
The research is the first to document that an obesity medication can not only pare pounds, but also safely prevent a heart attack, stroke or a heart-related death in people who already have heart disease — but not diabetes.
Zepbound, a new weight loss drug from Eli Lilly has been approved by the FDA, the latest entrant in the field which includes Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.
The drug was shown in clinical trials to help people lose up to 52 pounds in 16 months. It will carry a list price of about $1,060 for a month's supply. Despite the steep price, some analysts have anticipated it will become the best-selling drug in history.
The cost may put the new drug out of reach for many people given that insurance companies are often reluctant to cover weight loss medications, and Medicare, by law, does not cover them.
In the United States, 4 in 10 adults have obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
🩺Doctor Amazon
Amazon announces a new health care benefit program for Prime Members for $9 a Month (or $99 a Year)
“Prime members get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical, including 24/7 on-demand virtual care nationwide and easy to schedule office visits at any of One Medical’s hundreds of locations across the U.S”
💻TikTok Ban
New York City has banned China-owned TikTok on government devices, citing security concerns, joining a number of cities and states that have put such restrictions on the app.
The Biden administration is demanding TikTok’s Chinese-owners sell their stakes in the video-sharing app or face a full U.S. ban.
➡️Matt Hayden Former Cybersecurity Czar at the Department of Homeland Security and a GisermanGroup.com client on Scripps News says TikTok is dangerous:
💻They Want Your Password
Warning-New Scams to steal your passwords.
If you've had a password hacked recently, you aren't alone. The volume of password attacks has soared to an estimated 921 attacks every second. That's a 74% rise in one year, according to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report.
➡️Exiger's Robert Kolasky with more on Bloomberg & CBS:
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